BLIND FAITH

BLIND FAITH

The SRC - terrifying musical talents of Detroit, are going to release that great old standard Checkmate from Milestones. According to Pete Andrews, SRC manager, Dan Carlisle of WABX was instrumental in the decision to release Checkmate. According to Pete, Checkmate received the most air play and the best reaction in Detroit.

Skip Julius self confessed dope fiend has joined The Wilson Mower Pursuit. Skip was with the Red White and Blues Band for the last year and a half. This change in personnel in the Red White and Blues Band has been almost epidemic since they lost Dave Bonskey to a love affair some six months ago. Skip says he changed

bands because.. ? Skip is one

of the best piano players in Detroit, and he is also crazy.

WCAR, Detroit’s “Good Listening” station will be going rock in the near future.

Columbia Records’ King of the Delta Blues Singers (CL 1654) is probably the best example of Robert Johnson’s art currently available, and it’s good to see that Columbia is finally making some efforts to promote its sale. Let ’s -hope that Columbia also sees fit to release the 13 or 14 other Robert Johnson sides it now' has in. its vault.

1 he oft’ quoted Mike Quatro has done it again. The Mt. Clemens Pop Festival, Sunday, August 3rd, will feature Eric Burdon, John Mayall, Catmother, The Pleasure Seekers, The^McCoys, Muddy Waters, the' dangerous 5, Savage Grace, Stooges, Red, White & Blues Band, Fruit, Up, Ted Lucas and Charlie Latimer. That crazed L.A. group, Alice Cooper, will be appearing if they haven’t destroyed themselves by that time and also, an albino blues guitarist from Texas is expected. The affair is a Dave Dubray production (?) and happens at Sportsman Park, 28 Mile Road, off Gratiot, near New Haven.

It seems both Detroit’s metropolitan daily newspapers have finally discovered Detroit Rock & Roll. Ice Alexander, alias Tony Reay, has been set loose at the family newspaper, the News, to augment far-out Sharon Cassidy. While the Free Presss has finally given a free reign to columnist Mike Gormley, who seems fairly perceptive on both the local and national scenes.

Check out the current issue of the Ann Arbor Argus as it has a special feature on the Ann Arbor Blues Festival.

Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green of the Fleetwood Mac are doing an album depicting the life of Christ.

Mitch Ryder is forming a new group in Detroit and recording in Memphis with Steve Cropper. Tentative title of the album is The Detroit-Memphis Experiment.

Crazed record promoter Larry Benjamin has started work for Elektra and London Records.

Do not buy this album unless it has this’cover. It seems the delay in its release was due to policy hassle over cover. This is but one of two available covers.

Neil Young, Ex of the greatly missed Buffalo Springfield, has recently joined Crosby, Stills and Nash. In the interim, he produced two brilliant solo albums.

WABX does their movie thing again Wednesday at the United Artists Theater with the roekumentary Monterey Pop. Free tickets are being distributed through local cultural depots and the lunatic staff will be cruising downtown in that red double-decker thing.

Let’s all get together at this very moment to say goodbye to Paul Cannon (Paul Cannon, soon to be ex-wheel at WKNR-FM). Go-getter, John Small, of Troubador fame, is warmed up for the seat.

WJBK’s Lee Baby Simms, formerly from Texas, is living proof that the South will never rise again.

Lee Alan of horn fame is back on the air at WHFI-FM. Lee was quoted as saying, “The reason I’m back on the air is because radio is so bad in Detroit.’’Lee was a good disc jockey when he was on WXYZ in Detroit, but has come back on with the same rap and a few different tunes. Give Lee a 35 and find him as interesting as radio’s, greatest hits.